By Tridivesh Singh Maini Over the past two decades, a number of efforts have been made to revive the “Silk Road”, the ancient trade route, which connected Europe with Central Asia and China over a distance of 7,000 kilometers. While in the early 1990s the European Commission put forward the idea of connecting Europe with Central Asia via a road-building initiative known as the International Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia (TRACECA), the United States stepped in later in the decade, first with the aim of increasing its clout in Central Asia – as is evident from the Silk Road Strategy Act of 1999 – … Continue reading China’s Silk-Road lessons for India